Scopolamine, a powerful drug made from the borrachero tree, is used throughout Colombia as a powerful aide for rapes and robberies - many times, the victim is lucid once drugged, but has no memory of the event after.

A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from addiction, compulsion, or other behavioral problems.Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the 1939 book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism.